METROPOLITAN FLORAL EXHIBITIONS. 18*7 



Queen of Bourbons, Alba siiperba, Priory Queen, Lady Sale, Rising 

 Sun, Enchantress, and Matilda. 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, REGENT-STREET. 



June 1. — At this meeting several remarkable plants were produced, 

 more especially from Messrs. A^eitch and Son, of Exeter, who sent 

 their Rhododendron Javanicum, a new species from the mountains of 

 Java, extremely handsome, both as respects the beauty of its foliage, 

 and the great brilliancy of its orange-red blossoms. This was the im- 

 ]3orted plant, small and weak from travelling, and though beautiful in 

 its present state, much inferior to the native specimens, and certainly 

 equally inferior to what we may yet expect it to become. It will pos- 

 sibly prove about as hardy as a Chinese Azalea, and promises to be a 

 great acquisition, as a\ ell on account of its own intrinsic merit as for 

 the purposes of hybridisation. The same nursei"jnien also sent a 

 Browallia — a shrub some 2^ feet in heiglit, quite new, covered with 

 small shining leaves and round orange-coloured flowers, about as large 

 as a shilling, forming an extremely gay-looking bush, with which we 

 have nothing of the kind at all comparable. Associated with it was 

 likewise a new Fuclisia from Peru, resembling Corymbiflora in habit, 

 but producing singly from the axils of the leaves, long violet-tinged, 

 rosy-pink apetalous flowers, green at the ends. Also a small specimen 

 of Lysionotus longiflorusC:') an iEschynantluis-like plant, having four 

 long orange-coloured flowers in a cluster, giving, however, little idea 

 of the beauty to ^\hich we may expect the plant to attain wlien well 

 grown ; for, in a dried specimen which was exhibited, instead of four, 

 there were no fewer than fifteen flowers in a cluster. In the same 

 collection were, moreover, Scutellaria incarnata, a purple-flowered 

 species ; and a Dendrobium certainly new ; but about which, in its 

 present state, nothing decided could be said. A certificate Avas awarded 

 for the Fiichsia, and two large silver medals, one for tlie Rhododendron 

 Javanicmn, the other for the Browallia. Of Orchids, a nice col- 

 lection was exhibited by Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney, in wliich were 

 five species of the charming genus Aerides ; three Saccolabiums ; 

 Vanda lamellata, and a variety of Roxburghii ; Oncidium roseum ; 

 Cyrtochilum filipes ; a spotless variety of Dendrobium sanguinolentem ; 

 Epidendrum patens ; Cattleya Mossige, and its variety Aurantia ; to- 

 gether with the clear yellow-lipped Oncidium bifolium ; Brassia ver- 

 nicosa ; and brachiata : a large silver medal was awarded. From Mr. 

 Catleugh, of Chelsea, wei-e Clerodendron splendens, well-grown and 

 flowered ; Torenia asiatica, small, but charmingly bloomed ; Gardenia 

 radicans ; a red variety of Epiphyllum speciosum, larger and much 

 handsomer than the species ; a neat-looking seedling Cineraria 

 '• Tricolor," and Azalea " Catleughii," a variety of good form and 

 colotir. A Banksian medal was awarded for the Clerodendron and 

 Torenia. Messrs. Henderson, of Pine Apple-place, sent a variety of 

 Campylia liolosericea called elcgans, a r>ossi8ea, Cliironia glutinosa, 

 and Erica sindryana, apparently a free-growing variety in the way of 

 hienialis. .1. Allnutt, Esq., of Clapliam, sent Azalea fulgens ; and 

 from Mr. Ambrose, of Battersca, was a very pretty fancy Pelargonium 



